A purchase attempt falls through: clearing up the open sales status before the next prospective buyer
How do I start again with a traceable, up-to-date sales status after an abandoned purchase attempt?
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Condition changes between viewing and sale: Handling a new incident in an orderly way
How do I respond organisationally to a newly noticed condition while interested parties are working with older information.
A third-party right of habitation encumbers the object for sale: reconciling scope of use and sales objective
How do I prepare the sale if another person has an existing right of habitation on the Austrian property?
Prohibition on disposition for a gifted house: Review the earlier family agreement before sale
What must I assemble for sales advice regarding an Austrian prohibition on encumbrance or disposition?
An old right of repurchase in the onward sale: check contents, the entitled person and execution
How do I, as an Austrian seller, deal with a right of repurchase that still appears in the documents.
Sell or pause first: Determining a personal strain limit for the sales start
How can I tell whether I can organise a planned sale or first need a limited pause.
Sales documents uploaded, buyer informed? Properly assess the data room before the notary appointment
A data room does not automatically make a material piece of information known. The article places the BGH case V ZR 77/22 in context and shows its own procedure for comprehensible notices, new documents and outstanding queries.
Sell house for a life annuity: assess lifelong payment and future housing together
A life annuity cannot be compared to a purchase price with a fixed end to the instalments. Two fictitious payment durations show the difference; housing situation, payment security and individual arrangement remain part of the same decision.
A GmbH wants to buy your house: clarify company, representation and payment before the commitment
When selling to a GmbH, check which company will actually buy and who is authorised to represent it. Formation phase, purchase price payment and a later change of the purchaser side are treated as separate questions.
Sole name in the land register, still married: Clarify consent early before the property sale
Sole ownership and freedom to dispose under matrimonial property law are different questions. The article explains § 1365 BGB and prepares a comprehensible examination, without declaring every property automatically subject to a requirement for spousal consent.
House sale and ongoing insolvency proceedings: keep ownership, right of disposition and sales mandate separate
A German sales case shows why registered ownership and the authority to sell can diverge during insolvency proceedings. The procedural stage, judicial order and parties' roles are organised before further commitments are made.
Shared house, no shared sales plan: options for fractional ownership (Bruchteilseigentum) in Germany
If co-owners of a house in Germany want to go their separate ways, takeover, joint sale and dissolution are different options. The article explains fractional ownership (Bruchteilseigentum) and partition auction (Teilungsversteigerung) with their limits.